Willa Cather in Europe Quotes

“In their death as in their life the Latins are more socially disposed than we, and the graves in their cemeteries almost always touch each other, they are so closely crowded together.”
― Willa Cather, Willa Cather in Europe: Her Own Story of the First Journey

“One of the first things that greet your eye in Rouen is the beautiful monument erected to Flaubert in the very wall of the Museum, which is Rouen's holy of holies. Just across from him, in front of a dense cluster of sycamores, is his friend and pupil Guy de Maupassant. The Maupassant statue at rouen is, I think, quite as impressive as that in Paris—perhaps more so—and it is even more happily placed. Besides there is something very fitting in the idea of commemorating together the master and the pupil who surpassed him.”
― Willa Cather, Willa Cather in Europe: Her Own Story of the First Journey

“Constant comparisons are the stamp of the foreigner; one continually translates manners and customs of a new country into terms of his own, before he can fully comprehend them.”
― Willa Cather, Willa Cather in Europe: Her Own Story of the First Journey

“A group of girls with their hair hanging loose over their shoulders, and the most strident voices imaginable, sold flowers at the foot of an equestrian statue, done in bronze by Thornycroft when the Empress was a young woman.”
― Willa Cather, Willa Cather in Europe: Her Own Story of the First Journey